Tree-insulator and wire-supporter.



I w. HQWALLACE. TREE INSULATOR AND WIRE SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10, 1915.

1,176,629. Patented Mar. 21,1916.

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0, WASHINGTON, D. C.

WILLIAM H. WALLACE, OF ROSCOMMON, MICHIGAN.

TREE-INSULATOR AND WIRE-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

Application filed September 10, 1915. Serial No. 49,995.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. WAL-' LACE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Roscommon, in the county of Roscommon and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tree-Insulators and ire-Supporters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is an improved insulator and supporter for telegraph, telephone and other electric conducting wires and by means of which a wire may be thoroughly insulated and may be suspended from trees or other suitable overhead supporting objects, the obiect of the invention being to provide an improved insulator of this class which is extremely cheap and simple and the parts of which may be readily assembled and disassembled.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of an insulator and support constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse central sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the semi-tubular members of the insulating tube. Fig. 4: is a plan of the blank from which the holder and attacher is formed.

In accordance with my invention I provide an insulating tube 1 which is made of porcelain or other suitable insulating material and comprises a pair of detachable semi tubular members 2. The members of the insulating tube are provided at their ends with diametrically enlarged heads 3. I also provide a holder and an attacher 4 which is made from a single piece of suitable sheet metal and the blank from which the same is formed is illustrated in Fig. 4:- This holder and attacher comprises a body 5 which is substantially of oblong rectangular form, provided at one side with a centrally ar- Copies of this patent may be obtained for ranged arm 6 and at the opposite side with a similar arm 7. At opposite sides of the arm 7 the holder and attacher is provided with fastening arms 8 which are adapted to be passed through slots 9 at opposite sides of the arm 6 and to be clenched as shown in Fig. 1 so that the central portion of the holder and attacher may be bent in cylindrical form around the insulating tube and to lie between the enlarged heads 3 of the insulating tube, the arms 8 serving to bind and secure the upper sides of the holder and attacher together thus causing the holder and attacher to secure the members of the insulator together and to also secure the insulator in the holder and attacher. The arms 6-7 of the holder and attacher are provided with openings in which eyes 10 are secured and through which a suitable supporting wire may be passed, to suspend the insulator and wire from a tree or other suitable supporting object, the line wire passing through the bore of the insulating tube as will be understood. By straightehing out the ends of the arms 8 and then withdrawing said arms from the slots 9, the holder and attacher mav be readily opened to permit the removal of the insulating tube when desired. Hence repairs can be readily and economically effected when desired.

Having thus described my invention, I- claim An insulator of the class described comprising an insulating tube and a holder and attacher bent around the tube and provided with slots at one side and with bendable arms at the opposite side adapted to be passed through said slots and clenched to secure the sides of the holder and attacher' together, said holder and ,attacher also having openings at opposite sides for the reception of a supporting wire.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. WALLACE.

lVitnesses HARRY MoCoNKERY, EARNEST HALL.

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